Search and rescue  volunteers  get set to  search for missing person. photo 250news

Prince George, B.C.- Emergency personnel are on scene at the Nechako River Boat Launch this hour.

They had received word a person, believed to be an adult male,  had gone into the river around 3:00 this afternoon upstream from Wilson Park..

"Emergency personnel,  search and rescue, the dog unit,  have all been activated" says Corporal  Craig Douglass,  media liaison officer  with the Prince George RCMP.

Corporal Douglass  says   police are hoping  anyone who may  spot  anything  to contact police immediately.

The person who went into the river is wearing a red t-shirt.

(At right,  search and rescue boat is launched)

Police have stationed personnel at  the John Hart and  Cameron Street bridges in the event the person  floats by.

Sources say the person had planned on swimming across the river upstream from Wilson Park.